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John F. Kennedy and Jaqueline Bouvier at their outdoor reception in Newport, Rhode Island in September, 1953. .

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Maj. General William Tecumseh Sherman and his staff (1865)

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Soviet people are resting on the banks of the Moscow river. June 1928. Unknown author.

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Australian soldier consoles a wounded American on the Western Front in WWI, circa. 1918

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Captured French soldiers from Dien Bien Phu, escorted by Vietnamese troops, walk to a prisoner-of-war camp (1954)

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Two child soldiers of the defunct Biafran army, Udeze, 14, and Okonkwo, 16, are pictured talking to each other in the city of Umuahia on August 31, 1968, as Nigerian federal troops continued their advance during the Biafran War. Both were later killed on the front lines.

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Mstislav Rostropovich plays Bach at the Berlin Wall few days after it fell (Berlin, Germany 1989)

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Cuban president Fidel Castro tripping and falling after giving a speech in the city of Santa Clara, Oct 21, 2004 (1800x1440)

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Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe meeting at the Ciro nightclub for the birthday of Walter Winchel, 15 of May of 1953.

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3 women from the NY. Women’s Machine Gun Squad Police Reserves test a Lewis Machine Gun mounted on a henderson Motorcycle, circa 1918.

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Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Alexy I (1952)

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Freedom Fighters of Bangladesh training with Lee Enfields and commander with a Sten gun. Somewhere in India. 1971. (633x485)

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